Terms of Use Agreement for all Yoga Bananas® Material

We reserve the right to update these Terms of Use Agreement at any time, and you agree to abide by the most recent version of this Terms of Use Agreement each time and when you use the Website. You are accordingly advised to consult the Terms of Use Agreement each time you view and use the Website. Do not use the Website if you do not agree to all of the following terms and conditions.

Yoga Bananas® offers a printed and practical pedagogy and mythology that overflows into discussion and demonstration. Please read this Terms of Use Agreement (Terms) carefully. Anyone signing up to our courses or purchasing any Yoga Bananas® Material does so under this agreement. This agreement is non-negotiable. ​

This Terms of Use Agreement is between Yoga Bananas® and any individual purchasing or attending yoga classes or teacher training provided by Yoga Bananas® and are deemed to be accepted by the client or customer upon receipt. Any infringement of these Terms of Use will result in action taken and could result in the individual responsible for expense suffered or incurred.

Payments:

1 Please note that all payments are non-refundable but under exceptional circumstances can be transferrable if given one month's notice and subject to availability. In this case, if for some reason Yoga Bananas closes business and is not able to offer you a future course then Yoga Bananas is not liable to offer you any refund. Financial concessions cannot be made for any reason beyond the control of Yoga Bananas.

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Use of Content:

2.1 Protecting our Intellectual Property is key to supporting our innovative business. The contents of the Yoga Bananas® Manuals / Training and Teen Yoga Bananas® Manuals / Training such as text, graphics, illustrations and verbal and physical demonstrations are for your sole use only; they are to be used namely to teach children’s yoga classes and not for resale or personal adaption and resale and not for the purpose of setting up a children’s yoga training course.

2.2 The contents of the Yoga Bananas® Manuals / Training and Teen Yoga Bananas® Manuals / Training, including text, graphics, illustrations and verbal and physical demonstrations are to be used namely for the teaching of the ‘Yoga Bananas® Technique’ or ‘Teen Yoga Bananas® Technique’ in a children’s yoga class.

2.3 No part of the Yoga Bananas® name or portion of the Yoga Bananas® Manuals / Training and Teen Yoga Bananas® Manuals / Training may be used for other commercial exploitation (this includes, resale to others, adapting/changing the name of any Yoga Bananas® Techniques or Teen Bananas® Techniques or content and reselling or by republication to the public, including posting on social media) without prior written consent from Yoga Bananas®. Contact the permissions editor for requests detailing your full plans.

2.4 No portion of the Yoga Bananas® Manuals / Training and Teen Yoga Bananas® Manuals / Training may be posted or distributed. ​

2.5 Without limiting the forgoing, you may not decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, rent, lease, loan, sell, sublicense, or create derivative works from the Yoga Bananas® Manuals / Training and Teen Yoga Bananas® Manuals / Training or from any Content viewed but not documented during your training weekend. ​

2.6 You may not use the Yoga Bananas® Manuals / Training and Teen Yoga Bananas® Manuals / Training in any way that harms Vicky ‘Skip’ Oliver or Andrew Lawrence (respectively the Yoga Bananas® Creator and Illustrator).

2.7 You may not use or otherwise export or re-export the Yoga Bananas® Manuals / Training and Teen Yoga Bananas® Manuals / Training or any portion thereof. ​

3.3 Instagram and Twitter: When posting pictures and advertising your own classes, you must include the hashtag #yogabananastechnique and/or #teenyogabananastechnique and clearly state on your profile that you were trained by Yoga Bananas® using our profile name. On Twitter, the profile name is @yogabananas. On Instagram the profile name is @yoga_bananas.

3.4 You are responsible for ensuring that any corporate or individual company or venue in which you teach adheres to these terms, such as yoga studios, health clubs and any other. If a yoga studio, health club or any other already has an established brand name for their children's yoga classes then they will need to state - e.g., 'whYoga Tots using the Yoga Bananas® Technique' and display your ‘using the Yoga Bananas® Technique’ or ‘using the Teen Yoga Bananas® Technique' logos on all pages relating to children's or teen's yoga classes. Please do not sign up to our teacher training courses or purchase our manuals if you already know that the venue will not give you permission to do this or are not happy to attribute the proper credit. The Content is protected by copyright under both United Kingdom and foreign laws. Title to the Yoga Bananas® Manuals / Training and Teen Yoga Bananas® Manuals / Training remains with Yoga Bananas®. All rights not expressly granted herein are reserved to Yoga Bananas®.

3.5 Any use of the Yoga Bananas® Manuals / Training and Teen Yoga Bananas® Manuals / Training not expressly permitted by these Terms is a breach of these Terms and a violation of copyright, trademark and other laws. If you violate any of these Terms, your permission to use the Yoga Bananas® Manuals / Training and Teen Yoga Bananas® Manuals / Training automatically terminates and you must immediately destroy any illegal copies you have made of any portion of the Yoga Bananas® Manuals / Training and Teen Yoga Bananas® Manuals / Training and return the hard copy obtained to: Yoga Bananas®, 4 New Road, Forest Green, Dorking, Surrey RH5 5SA.

Trademark:

4 Vicky ‘Skip’ Oliver is the proprietor of the trademark Yoga Bananas®. After over 16 years of usage, Yoga Bananas® has acquired an extensive reputation and goodwill that graduates rely upon for the status of their own business. Section 10 of the Trade Marks Act 1994, prohibits using the same or similar marks for the same or similar services where such use would cause likelihood of association and likelihood of confusion as to the origin of the mark.

Yoga Bananas Teachers' Directory:

5 As a graduate of the Yoga Bananas® training courses, you consent to your contact details (name, email, phone number, website and general location) being published on to the Yoga Bananas Teachers' Directory, so that users of the site can contact you about classes in your area. You are required to keep these details updated so that they are relevant to the user. You may send updates or request erasure from this service at any time by contacting permissions@yogabananas.com.

Yoga Alliance Professionals:

6 As a student of the Yoga Bananas® courses, you consent to your contact details (name, email and phone number) being passed onto the Yoga Alliance Professionals if they make this request, so they can contact you directly and invite you to register as a Trainee and Teacher. You may opt out of this registration process once they have contacted you. Please see Yoga Alliance Professionals’ own Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions before agreeing to this. You may request that Yoga Bananas® does not share your details with Yoga Alliance Professionals by contacting permissions@yogabananas.com. Yoga Alliance US and Independent Yoga Network do not require Yoga Bananas® to pass on any contact details.

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Social Media:

7.1 As a student of the Yoga Bananas® training courses, you consent to photos and short videos being taken during the training and then posted on Yoga Bananas® social media platforms for the use of promoting the course. You may request to opt out by writing to permissions@yogabananas.com.

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7.2 From time-to-time Yoga Bananas® carefully chooses video elements to showcase the Technique on social media but this is the exclusive right of Yoga Bananas® and is not permitted by graduates, although graduates can share Yoga Bananas® posts. Of course, you may give a flavour of your classes on social media through stills photography, ensuring that you make clear that it is a Yoga Bananas® Technique / Teen Yoga Bananas® Technique and always including a credit to Yoga Bananas® (see Attribution above).

Liability of Yoga Bananas®:

8.3 The use of the Yoga Bananas® Manuals / Technique and Teen Yoga Bananas® Manuals / Technique is at your own risk. When using the Yoga Bananas® Manuals / Technique and Teen Yoga Bananas® Manuals / Technique, delivery of the information is transmitted in a way that is beyond the control and jurisdiction of Yoga Bananas®. Accordingly, Yoga Bananas® assumes no liability. The Yoga Bananas® Manuals / Technique and Teen Yoga Bananas® Manuals / Technique are provided on an “as is” basis. YOGA BANANAS®, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, STATUTORY OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTIES' RIGHTS, AND FITNESS FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

8.4 In no event shall Yoga Bananas® be liable for any damages (including, without limitation, incidental and consequential damages, personal injury/wrongful death, lost profits, or damages resulting from lost data or business interruption) resulting from the use of or inability to use the Yoga Bananas® Manuals / Technique and Teen Yoga Bananas® Manuals / Technique, whether based on warranty, contract, tort, or any other legal theory, and whether or not Yoga Bananas® are advised of the possibility of such damages. Yoga Bananas® are not liable for any personal injury, including death, caused by your use or misuse of the Yoga Bananas® Manuals / Technique and Teen Yoga Bananas® Manuals / Technique.

User Submissions:

9 You consent to receive emails about future courses and developments. You understand that at the bottom of each email will be a working unsubscribe button and you will be automatically unsubscribed. The personally identifiable information you submit to Yoga Bananas® is governed by the Yoga Bananas® Privacy Policy. Yoga Bananas® will only share your name, email, phone number, website and general location (those submitted on the booking form) on the Teachers' Directory on the Yoga Bananas® website and with Yoga Alliance Professionals and no other third party. Whilst the listing is active, it is requested that the graduate contacts Yoga Bananas® if any of their details change or a website becomes active: permissions@yogabananas.com. By signing this agreement, you understand that you can opt out of this at any time by writing an email to permissions@yogabananas.com.

Indemnity:

10 You agree to defend, indemnify and hold Yoga Bananas® harmless from and against any claims, actions or demands, liabilities, and settlements, including without limitation, reasonable legal and accounting fees, resulting from, or alleged to result from, your use of the Yoga Bananas® Manuals / Technique and Teen Yoga Bananas® Manuals / Technique or a violation of these Terms.

Complete Agreement:

11 This Terms of Use Agreement and the Yoga Bananas® Privacy Policy constitute the entire agreement between you and Yoga Bananas® with respect to the use of the Yoga Bananas® Manuals / Technique and Teen Yoga Bananas® Manuals / Technique. Thank you for your support and co-operation.​

Note:

The YOGA BANANAS® TRAINING and TEEN YOGA BANANAS® TRAINING in their entirety are regulated under the Design Protect litigation insurance policy. ​